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The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, and the whole country has a five-day holiday.

Liuxiang Snacks is open as usual during the day, mainly selling three-color glutinous rice balls today.

The glutinous rice balls are made from glutinous rice and dyed red and yellow with rose juice and corn juice.

The roses are collected from roses grown in a unique cave, and the interior is made of candied rose petals.

The yellow glutinous rice balls are filled with peanuts, while the white glutinous rice balls are filled with black sesame seeds.

A bowl of three-color glutinous rice dumplings has six dumplings in total. Since the glutinous rice dumplings taste sweet and glutinous, and are colorful and look very auspicious, diners who come to the restaurant will order a bowl.

At Shen Shi, Mao Xi gave the store clerks an early holiday and asked everyone to watch the lantern festival at night.

Although Lihua Town is a small town, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets are very lively. Men, women, old and children go out one after another. The doors of each shop are covered with Xiu'e bead curtains.

At night, when the lanterns were lit and torches were everywhere, it was even more lively than the Spring Festival.

Liuxiang Snacks closed early, and Mrs. Chen took her younger siblings to Aoshan to enjoy the lanterns.

Xiaodouzi carried a crab-shaped lantern, and Ajiao carried a toad-shaped lantern, and they chased each other playfully.

When they arrived at Cross Street, the people built a mountain beside the stage. The mountain was filled with lanterns of various colors, including revolving lanterns, palace lanterns, dragon lanterns, rabbit lanterns, etc. It was very gorgeous.

On the stage, there are acrobats and contortionists; under the stage, all kinds of miraculous people perform stilt walking, sword swallowing, and flower drum playing.

Lou Laner bought a green beast mask and wore it while walking around the streets, hoping to find a match.

At the poetry lantern sign, she met a young man wearing the same mask as her.

Mao Xi and Mu Zhiyuan also came to the lanterns together, looking at the poetry lanterns and guessing lantern riddles.

Although Lou Lan'er was wearing a mask, Shu Xi still recognized her from a distance and saw her wearing a mask discussing lantern riddles with a man.

"Brother Mu, look, is that Lou Lan'er?"

"How did you recognize her?"

"I can still recognize her figure." Shui Xi snickered, "It seems like Sister Lan'er is on a blind date!"

Just as Mu Zhiyuan was about to invite Ma Xi to put the lotus lantern aside, a loud noise suddenly came from the distance, as if something exploded.

Then, thick smoke drifted from the cross street, and the fire lit up the night.

"There's a fire, there's a fire in Aoshan!" The person standing in the high pavilion shouted!

The people were in chaos.

"No, Aniang, Xiaodouzi and Ajiao are watching the lanterns in Aoshan."

Worried about their safety, the two rushed to the cross street.

Lou Lan'er saw this and was about to leave when the masked man grabbed her hand and asked, "Girl, don't leave!"

After speaking, the man took off his mask and handed the poem lantern plaque in his hand to Lou Lan'er.

"There's a fire there. I have to take the first step. Young Master, I'm helping cook at Liuxiang Snacks. We'll meet again if we are destined."

After Lou Lan'er finished speaking, she ran towards the crowd. When she reached the cross street, she remembered that she was still wearing a green beast mask on her face.

People from the Street Department had already begun to extinguish the fire, but the area near the cross street became crowded due to panic. Pedestrians watching the lights mixed with donkeys, carts and horse-drawn carriages and crowded together.

"Ajiao, Ajiao!" Mrs. Chen called Ajiao's name anxiously.

Xiaodouzi was helping to find her sister.

Mu Zhiyuan, Shu Xi and Lou Lan'er rushed to Cross Street respectively.

"Aunt Chen, Xiaodouzi, which direction did Ajiao run to in the end?" Mu Zhiyuan asked.

"The last time I saw her was in Aoshan. She kept walking around looking at the lanterns."

Ma Xi comforted Mrs. Chen: "Mom, don't worry, we will search along the four directions of the cross street and we will definitely find it."

Everyone searched twice and finally returned to the cross street to meet up, but there was still no sign of Ajiao.

Mao Xi suggested: "How about we go back to Liuxiang Snacks and take a look, maybe she ran back by herself!"

Everyone walked to Nanquemen together. Along the way, Mrs. Chen looked sad and blamed herself deeply.

When we arrived at Liuxiang Snacks, there was no sign of Ajiao at the door of the shop.

At this time, Mu Zhiyuan went to check the nearby shops one by one. When he arrived at Sifangguan, he saw Ajiao playing by himself at the cashier.

When she saw Mu Zhiyuan, she rushed to the door and hugged Mu Zhiyuan.

"Ajiao has been found. She's at Sifang Pavilion!" Mu Zhiyuan shouted towards Liu Xiang's snack bar.

When everyone came over, they saw Ajiao playing here as if nothing had happened.

Seeing Mrs. Chen coming to pick up Ah Jiao, You Dianjia hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Oh, why did you come just now? Your Ah Jiao returned to the door of the shop by himself. When he saw that the door was not open, he ran to me and said I have to wait for grandma."

Mrs. Chen hugged her daughter and said, "Ajiao, if you encounter trouble in the future, you should go to Aniang first. Don't run away by yourself. Do you understand?"

Ajiao took the toad lantern in her hand to Mrs. Chen, rubbed her eyes and said, "Mom, I'm sleepy!"

While holding Ajiao in her arms and coaxing her to sleep, Mrs. Chen said, "Youdianjia, thank you for helping to take care of Ajiao today!"

You Dianjia asked in confusion: "How can you let a doll come back on its own?"

"There was a fire just now at Cross Street. There were so many people there that they dispersed."

"Fire? This is not a trivial matter. Is the fire out?" The owner called the waiter to his side and told him to check the inn's fireproof water tank.

Mao Xi saw that You's store was still open today: "You're still open today, how is your business?"

"I also want to take a vacation, but in the past few days, the number of foreign guests coming to Lihua Town has suddenly increased. Every room is full, and I have no choice but to take a rest!"

The hotel owner complained on his lips, but he was happy in his heart. The hotel fee during the five-day holiday was 30% higher than on normal days. He had made a very good calculation.

Ajiao, who was tired from running, had already fallen asleep in Chen's arms. Mao Xi asked Chen and his younger siblings to spend the night in a rented house in Lihua Town. There was chaos on the streets, so he would not go back to Liujia Village tonight.

Today is the Lantern Festival, and the shop can stay open all night, so Mao Xi opened the food stall again and only sold glutinous rice balls, with Lou Laner and Mu Zhiyuan accompanying him.

"Lou Lan'er, there are no guests now. You go to the hut to rest for a while."

Lou Lan'er felt a little tired, so she went to the inner room to take a nap.

At that time, a young man came to the store. He stepped forward and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you have glutinous rice balls to sell?"

"Yes, please wait!"

Mao Xi took some frozen glutinous rice balls made in advance from the space and cooked a bowl of three-color glutinous rice balls with brown sugar and ginger water.

"The shopkeeper can sell pancakes or naan."

"We still have the naan. It was made during the day. Please wait a moment while I heat it up."

"It's okay, no need to heat it, I brought it with me."

The young man finished eating the glutinous rice balls and was about to pay when he looked slightly embarrassed and said: "Shopkeeper, I don't have enough copper coins with me. There is a painting here. Can I mortgage it to you first and I will make up for it another day?"

Mao Xi opened the painting, which was a picture of a night banquet. She nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, the young man stood up and left Liuxiang Snacks.

Mao Xi saw that he was holding a green beast mask in his hand, which was exactly the same as the one Lou Laner was wearing today.